Oakville's New Zoning By-law

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Oakville’s Zoning By-Law
What I Think Oakvile can Offer
to the Future of Zoning
Joe Nethery, Manager – Zoning By-law Project
Town of Oakville, Planning Services Department

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Presentation Overview
About the Project
• What are we doing? – The inZone Project
Consultation and Outreach
• The “Typical” events
• On-demand consultation and information
Content Challenges
• Zoning for compatibility, zoning for change
• Satisfying competing demands
• Finding the right home for regulations

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This is
Oakville

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• Replacing current 1984 Zoning By-law with a new one
• “Usual” range of issues associated with age
• Target date for approval by Council is early 2014
Current Project
What are we doing?

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• Newspaper notice
• Front page promotion on Town website
• Electronic panel display in community
centres
• Project email list
• Twitter promotion
• 11 events over 8 nights
• Drop-in format, staff presentation
56 total attendees
Traditional Consultation: Open Houses

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• “All About Zoning” workshop
– 14 workshops (as of June 30, 2013)
– 160 total attendees
– Average of 12 attendees per event
• One-on-one stakeholder and citizen meeting
days
– Four days set during July/August 2013
– Have five consultants waiting on these times
– [Plus 4 meetings already with major
landowners]
On-demand Consultation

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http://www.towntv.ca/all-about-zoning.htm

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Online Display

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• A municipality should plan on a housekeeping
amendment within 6 months of adopting a new
zoning by-law
Remaining Relevant

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Content Challenges

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Zoning for Compatibility: -0 Suffix Zone
11.1.9 Development within all stable residential
communities shall be evaluated using the
following criteria to maintain and protect
the existing neighbourhood character:
• Built form … to be compatible with the surrounding neighbourhood.
– Setbacks
– Building orientation
– Separation distances within the surrounding neighbourhood
– Gradation of height between housing forms, land use designations
– Lot patterns

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Reduced lot coverage maximums
• Recommend converting Floor Area/Lot Ratio
maximums to lot coverage
– One storey = stays the same
– More than one storey = reduced lot coverage
Revised front yard averaging framework
• Each zone has a base metric standard
• Where the -0 Suffix applies, the minimum front
yard becomes “the average of the front yards of
the nearest two adjacent detached dwellings”
The Proposed -0 Suffix Zone

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• Long sought by some owners, resident associations
– One appeal a month of our minor approvals by residents
associations
– Not strong enough for some
• Concerns from some owners, building industry
– Rationale for changed calculation metric and resultant built
forms
• Testing our compatibility clauses in Official Plan
– “Liveable” in the newspaper once a week

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Expanded Use Permissions
• Prohibit residential on portion of first storey
• Harmonized retail and service commercial
permissions
Expanded Building Envelopes
• New minimums, taller maximums
• Tiering of upper storeys (increased yards)
The Proposed Mixed Use Zones

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Zoning for Change: Growth Areas
• Strong policy pressure (“direction”) from upper-tier
government
– Regional policy direction to “prezone” these areas
– Local concerns about infrastructure
• Political sensitivity
– Parking supply
– “Incompatibility” of some uses with residential uses
– “Incongruency” of political asks and policy direction
– Where does the “transition” of height occur?

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Zoning for Change: Companion Projects
• Competing internal staff demands – and other projects
Licensing
By-law
Review
Environmental
Strategic Plan
Downtown
Heritage
Conservation
District
Sign By-law
Review
Urban Forest
Strategic
Management Plan
Internal
Process
Reviews
Midtown
Oakville Study
(Feedback from
development review)
South Central
Public Lands
Study
“Switching
Gears” –
Transportation
Master Plan

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• Demand exists for a zoning conversation
• Demand is growing for zoning addressing
neighbourhood-based issues
• There will be fewer, but clearer regulations (perhaps
offset by other approvals or regulatory routes)
• It may not be a zoning solution: other avenues for
implementation
• Need to factor regulatory review into policy review
regimen
Conclusions from the Present

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As “informed facilitators”
planners will need to be able to
communicate implementation
Zoning is just one of many tools
Dispatch from the Future of Zoning

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Thank You
General Inquiry:
inZone Project Team
inzone@oakville.ca
Project Manager:
Joe Nethery
Manager, Zoning By-law Project
joenethery@oakville.ca
http://www.oakville.ca/townhall/zoning-by-law-review-inzone.html

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